"would be better served by continuing to hold an ownership position in a pure-play sporting goods retailer rather than a retail conglomerate."
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"Jabs are the lightweight pieces of content that benefit your customers by making them laugh, snicker, ponder, play a game, feel appreciated, or escape; right hooks are calls to action that benefit your businesses."
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"Each of us, as citizens, has a role to play in creating a better world for our children"
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"I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can."
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"I've always been an unselfish guy, and that's the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability - not only for myself but for my team-mates."
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"Whether you are a writer, or an actor, or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else."
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"The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas."
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"Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life."
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"I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever."
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"I play to all people - all colors, all creeds ~ drunk, sober, everybody."
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"The only game I like to play is "Old Maid", providing she's not too old"
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"Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings."
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"Man, you'd be surprised how much I'm learning - not only about myself, but about the musicians who came before me. You don't realize at first when you listen to Armstrong's records how great this man was and how hard that Hot Five music was to play. After the experience of reading and playing those parts, I have an even greater respect for Louis Armstrong than before"
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"I really want to play interesting roles, but you want to work, so it's a balancing game."
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"I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life."
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"But a true diva has dismissed that drama. A true diva's heart is open, and she's ready to play by her own rules - rules that are gentle and kind."
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"I like to let each thing happen - direct it a little consciously, maybe - but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance. We don't plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we'll play."
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"Self-righteousness and presumptive moral judgments pose a great danger in the political arena. To become convinced of the divine infallibility of one's personal predilections on a secular political issue is to play God, to assume to oneself the attributes of deity. It cultivates an arrogant intolerance of dissenting viewpoints and relegates one's political adversaries to the category of evil per se."
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"I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength."
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"Housing, it's not a plaything. It's not something that you can just play around with. It is, I believe, the rubric of family. It is the glue for a healthy community. And to have someone that really wants to dismantle any government involvement in making sure that every community has access to that is very scary. We should be worried."
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